Nearly 70 million people in southern Africa are suffering from the effects of an El Niño-induced drought, a ccording to the Southern African Development Community, resulting in widespread food ...

About 68 million people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought which has wiped out crops across the region, the regional bloc SADC said on Saturday. The drought, ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region's worst ...

Taking shovels and buckets to a dried-up sandy belt of the Vhombozi River in Zimbabwe last August, groups of Mudzi district villagers gathered to dig with the hope of somehow finding water. The ...

Large regions in northern, southern, and central-western Africa, as well as northern Madagascar, are experiencing severe drought conditions due to two or more years of lower-than-average rainfall and ...

MUDZI, Zimbabwe (AP) — It’s Tuesday morning, and 5-year-old Talent should be in school. Instead, he’s foraging for the fruit that his family is counting on for food now that crops have withered in the ...

Tree-ring samples taken by Paulo Quadri, who earned a Ph.D. in environmental studies from UC Santa Cruz, were included in the study. (Photo by Luz A. de Wit) The top-line findings of a massive ...

The October-December 2025 rainy season has "essentially failed” across the eastern Horn of Africa, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Friday, raising concerns of a sharp ...

1. Rainfall variability, including drought, consistently translates into variation in grass productivity in savanna ecosystems. These variations in grass availability can impact grazer populations, ...

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Some 23 million farmers in drought-hit Southern Africa need urgent help to prepare for the next planting season with only a few weeks left before it begins, the U.N ...

Drought conditions before and during harvest can have severe consequences for your soybean crop. Drought can cause substantial yield reductions, especially during R4 to R6 growth stages, reducing both ...

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Taking shovels and buckets to a dried-up sandy belt of the Vhombozi River in Zimbabwe last August, groups of ...